Brainy Quotes Quotes

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once you die, that’s it – game over.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What one person calls miracle, I call nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Imagine the ancient society of India, and in fact all over the world, a few thousands years ago. In those days, rational thinking was quite scarce. Ignorance was the default mode of thinking. Only a handful of individuals were capable of higher intellectual thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is one thing to believe and another to know.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Don’t be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.

~ Abhijit Naskar

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

~ Abhijit Naskar